Stylist Secrets

2010/09/01

This is why I need a stylist. I would love a styled dresser. A beautiful collection of odds and ends that all go together wonderfully and doesn’t look like a cluttered pile of junk. Which is exactly what it would look like if I attempted this. Mid-century modern dresser – yep, vases – yep, tray – yep, primarily white accessories with pops of color – yep and yep, well put together dresser top looking like it belongs on The Selby or Freende von Freuden – NOPE! And I won’t even start on the gorgeous living room in the shade of grey I have been searching 3 years for… make sure you check out the before picture of the living room, the shelves miraculously look bigger with more stuff on them, how is that possible…

Emily Henderson’s blog The Brass Petal is full of amazingly styled (but not too styled) interiors. She also happens to be the new winner of Design Star and the host of her own new show Secrets From a Stylist. Sadly, I don’t have television, but based on these pictures and the rest on her site, I am going to try and find a friend who does and check out her new show. I need some of those secrets…